KITCHEN TABLE — Autumn 1979

Kitchen Table

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Setting the table…

KITCHEN TABLE — a Screwcap.Games prototype · What this is · 1979 · 2021 · The Hours · The Lumpy Year · Sibling titles: THE CHAIR · DoubleFives · Gold Digger · Sister Wendy · Sutda · DTTAU

Sources & method — every number, and which ones we made up: Federal Funds Rate (FRED) · CPI (FRED) · 30-year mortgage (FRED) · CPI 1913– (Minneapolis Fed) · The Volcker disinflation · The Great Inflation · Regulation Q

The interest rates, the inflation, and the law are real and sourced above. The Marchettis, the Ruiz household, the Pruitts and the Amaros are invented, and so are their household prices — the houses, the rents, the cars are era-plausible, not recorded. A teaching simulation and a game: not financial advice, not a description of any real person, and no rate quoted here is a rate available today.

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